New Year’s Eve and things might be quietening down. If you live in the north of England we hear that you’re being battered by the Beast From The East 2. I hope you are safe and sound. A quarter century since starting Raindance I’m still learning big...

Elliot Grove is the founder of Raindance Film Festival and the British Independent Film Awards. He has produced over 700 hundred short films and also five feature films, including the multi-award-winning The Living and the Dead in 2006, Deadly Virtues in 2013...

Don’t we all hate painful filmmaking lessons? I do. I’ve had plenty of them. It’s been 25 years since this whole Raindance thing started, and it’s painful to remember all the naive and often stupid lessons I had to be taught. We’re...

No one thought Raindance would survive when I plunged and took the leap, way back when Princess Diana was still alive. It was in fact on April 3rd and 4th 1992 that the very first Raindance event took place – the legendary 2-Day Film School with Dov Simens. I...

You have an idea for a film – now what? Reflecting on these five questions will help you begin production and put you in a better position to pitch your film to investors. 1. What will it add to the conversation? Ideally, your film should be meaningful, entertaining,...